Thread: Stirling semiauto .22 - thoughts/opinions wanted

Loved mine it worked as it should. Dundee gots a cracker.

Life is to short to own a Stirling .
The reality is that most people will shoot way more rimfire rounds during their shooting life than Centerfire .
But they want to cheap out and only spend a couple of hundy on what is actually one of their main go to rifles .
I’ll never now buy a rimfire that I cant adjust the trigger on , it must feed from the mag perfectly everytime , it must be of adult sized proportions and not toy sized like so many are .

Had a semi when a lot younger.
Blew 4-500 rounds away first weekend playing with it.
Rolling cans across the lawn shooting, empty .22 shells of fence battens.
One one I had functioned flawlessly used it a hell of a lot spotlighting.
Was remarkably accurate,comparable with the Brno I replaced it with.
Only sold as when taking learners out had to watch them like a hawk when they shot something and one back up the spout.
But my experience of one was a good one.

And some threads are good to start again and reread and post to.

My one was appalling, never got through a full mag without jamming. When the firing pin broke I shoved it in the guncase in disgust where it lingered for 20 years until I arranged to trade it for parts with someone on the forum for a dozen beer last March. It ended up going to the buyback and earned me $420 jacindabucks (for a rifle in pieces with a broken firing pin and no magazine) , so ultimately it was a very useful rifle.